learning today leading tomorrow
Mansfield Kindergarten is a not for profit organisation that has been built by our local families over the past 70 years and reflects our diversity of our community.
After Kinder Care – Now Available Tuesday & Thursday!
Little kinder is a play-based program available as a pre-kinder option. Enrol your child today!
Four Year Old kinder offers a program based around identity, community, wellbeing, learning and communication through a combination of outdoor and indoor activities. Enrol your child today!
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Our Kinder
our philosophy
Mansfield Kindergarten promotes a holistic approach to children’s learning and development. All children are provided a quality education within a nurturing, stimulating and caring environment. The kindergarten is managed by the parents of children currently attending, who join us in being committed to the child safe standards. We want our children to be safe, happy and empowered.
The pedagogy underlining the philosophy of our kindergarten is based on social constructivism; people are active creators of knowledge, constructing understanding of their worlds through their experiences, social interactions and reflection with others.
We strive to empower each child and encourage them to question and formulate their own individualised ideas. These ideas are what develop our curriculum. All children’s perspectives, culture and history are respected and included. Our children feel safe and heard, and consequently, experience positive outcomes. Our programs provide choice and opportunities for both shared activity and independent play. Emotional regulation is scaffolded, as is social play and conflict resolution.
Respect for diversity and our environment are fostered both onsite and offsite at Earth Kinder. Our Earth Kinder program promotes ecological literacy through close contact with nature in all seasons. This program in particular builds resilience, risk taking, adventure and imagination.
As a community kinder, we nurture the contribution and collaboration of all families and value our relationships with the wider community. We strive to infuse each child’s culture into our program, including those of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people. Mansfield Kindergarten acknowledges and respects the Traditional Owners of the land on which we learn and play, the Taungurung people. We teach our children about reconciliation and are actively contributing to our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).
We also respect our team’s culture and history and are proud that each staff member brings their own unique qualities to the kinder which they use to co-construct learning with both children and families. Consistently, they demonstrate empathy, respect, warmth and a passion for learning. Most importantly, they contribute to an organisational culture of child safety.
Mansfield Kindergarten is a Child Safe Organisation
Child Safe Standard 1: Culturally Safe Environments
Mansfield Kindergarten is a culturally safe environment in which the diverse and unique identities and experiences of Aboriginal children and young people are respected and valued.
Child Safe Standard 2: Child Safety and Wellbeing is Embedded in Leadership, Governance and Culture
Child safety and wellbeing is embedded in the Mansfield Kindergarten organisational leadership, governance and culture.
Child Safe Standard 3: Child and Student Empowerment
Mansfield Kindergarten ensures that children and young people are empowered about their rights, participate in decisions affecting them and are taken seriously.
Child Safe Standard 4: Family Engagement
Mansfield Kindergarten ensures that families and communities are informed and involved in promoting child safety and wellbeing.
Child Safe Standard 5: Diversity and Equity
Mansfield Kindergarten ensures that equity is upheld and diverse needs respected in policy and practice.
Child Safe Standard 6: Suitable Staff and Volunteers
People working with children and young people at Mansfield Kindergarten are suitable and supported to reflect child safety and wellbeing values in practice.
Child Safe Standard 7: Complaints Processes
Mansfield Kindergarten ensures that processes for complaints and concerns are child-focused.
Child Safe Standard 8: Child Safety Knowledge, Skills and Awareness
Staff and volunteers at Mansfield Kindergarten are equipped with the knowledge, skills and awareness to keep children and young people safe through ongoing education and training.
Child Safe Standard 9: Child Safety to Physical and Online Environments
Physical and online environments at Mansfield Kindergarten promote safety and wellbeing while minimising the opportunity for children and young people to be harmed.
Child Safe Standard 10: Review of Child Safety Practices
At Mansfield Kindergarten implementation of the Child Safe Standards is regularly reviewed and improved.
Child Safe Standard 11: Implementation of Child Safety Practice
Mansfield Kindergarten ensures that policies and procedures document how our kinder is safe for children and young people.

trusted by many
My daughters have loved coming to kinder, so much so that they wish it was every day. I love that they have access to so many activities and get to venture outside the walls to Earth Kinder. The teachers are amazing and support the children in all ways.
Courtney, Parent
Our Program
We strive to empower children
The focus of our education and programming is the child. We strive to empower children, by using their thoughts and ideas to develop the program. We encourage each child to reach their full potential in accordance with their individual ability. We encourage exploration and creativity and the importance of the process not the product.
We have a strong focus on sustainable practices and encourage children to interact and learn from their environment. Our indoor/outdoor program uses natural materials where children are encouraged to explore, create and invent.
Our program supports the five learning outcomes of the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development framework :-

Children have a strong sense of identity

Children are connected with and contribute to their world

Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

Children are confident and involved learners

Children are effective communicators
Community Based
our kinder is run by families
We believe that as advocates for our profession, it is is important to share our knowledge and experience and that we are a central link to information and support services within the wider community.
Together we can make a difference
As a not-for-profit organisation, Fundraising is an important part of our organisation. Fundraising helps us purchase additional equipment for the children’s program and support development projects.
Every little bit helps and we would love to see you be a part of our next fundraising or social event.